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*''Japanese'': [[種子島]] ''(Tanegashima)''
Tanegashima is an island in [[Kagoshima prefecture]] located just south of [[Kyushu]] and famous as the site of the first introduction of European-style [[teppo|firearms]] into Japan in [[1543]].
==History==
Tanegashima first appears in Japanese records in the 7th century. According to some sources, Tanegashima, the [[Amami Islands]], [[Tokunoshima]], [[Yakushima]] first began sending [[tribute]] to the [[Yamato state]] in [[616]].<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 51.</ref> The island was officially added into the territory of [[Osumi province|Ôsumi province]] in [[624]].<ref name=tatsugo>Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207132/sizes/h/]</ref> Elites on the islands are recorded as receiving [[stipends]] from the court as early as [[683]].<ref name=tatsugo/>
In the medieval period, Tanegashima served as an entrepot (waypoint) for trade traveling between the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryûkyû Islands]] and area in Japan's [[Inland Sea]]. The [[Tanegashima clan]], retainers of the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]] who claimed descent from [[Taira no Kiyomori]], ruled as lords of Tanegashima and neighboring islands throughout the medieval and early modern periods.
According to most accounts, two or three Portuguese arrived at Tanegashima in 1543 aboard a Chinese junk, and before long [[Taneshima Tokitaka]], lord of the island, had his retainers reproducing European-style arquebuses.<ref>Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 2.</ref>
[[Ogura Tomochika]] served as mayor of Tanegashima for a brief time, from [[1873]] until sometime before [[1877]].<ref>Plaques on-site at Ogura's grave at [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]], Kagoshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15066782829/sizes/l/]</ref>
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[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
Tanegashima is an island in [[Kagoshima prefecture]] located just south of [[Kyushu]] and famous as the site of the first introduction of European-style [[teppo|firearms]] into Japan in [[1543]].
==History==
Tanegashima first appears in Japanese records in the 7th century. According to some sources, Tanegashima, the [[Amami Islands]], [[Tokunoshima]], [[Yakushima]] first began sending [[tribute]] to the [[Yamato state]] in [[616]].<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 51.</ref> The island was officially added into the territory of [[Osumi province|Ôsumi province]] in [[624]].<ref name=tatsugo>Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207132/sizes/h/]</ref> Elites on the islands are recorded as receiving [[stipends]] from the court as early as [[683]].<ref name=tatsugo/>
In the medieval period, Tanegashima served as an entrepot (waypoint) for trade traveling between the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryûkyû Islands]] and area in Japan's [[Inland Sea]]. The [[Tanegashima clan]], retainers of the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]] who claimed descent from [[Taira no Kiyomori]], ruled as lords of Tanegashima and neighboring islands throughout the medieval and early modern periods.
According to most accounts, two or three Portuguese arrived at Tanegashima in 1543 aboard a Chinese junk, and before long [[Taneshima Tokitaka]], lord of the island, had his retainers reproducing European-style arquebuses.<ref>Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 2.</ref>
[[Ogura Tomochika]] served as mayor of Tanegashima for a brief time, from [[1873]] until sometime before [[1877]].<ref>Plaques on-site at Ogura's grave at [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]], Kagoshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15066782829/sizes/l/]</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Geographic Locations]]